CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Click To Play play_blip_movie_524474(); Every few months I set aside a block of time to do a little ‘spring cleaning’ of my blog. In this video I share 10 11 areas that I’ve worked on when spring cleaning my blogs. They include (I’ve included links for each point where I’ve ...more

Any parent will tell you that the “good cop / bad cop” routine has stood the test of time for one reason: It works. Do any of these sound familiar? “You’d better not let mom see you eating that before dinner.” “You just wait until your father gets home.” You ...more

The following post on Optimizing Blog growth has been submitted by Aaron Wall from SEOBook. Many of my friends who are would be bloggers are afraid to start blogging because they are afraid of being wrong or writing something that might make them look foolish. They want to make sure ...more

With December starting tomorrow I thought it might be worth pointing back to a series of posts that I wrote at this time last year on How to Optimize Your Blog for Christmas. Keep in mind that positioning yourself for seasonal traffic (and believe me that the next month there ...more

This guest post was submitted by Elise Bauer, Publisher of Simply Recipes and Editor-in-Chief of Learning Movable Type Read blogs long enough and one thing will begin to stand out is the varying tenor and quality of comments on different blogs. When I first started publishing my own blogs and ...more

A few weeks back I asked readers for their opinion on a topic that I’d been asked to write a short column on for the Australian Marketing Magazine (no online version of the article that I can find). The question was – ‘Will the growing popularity of digital user-generated content ...more

This is a guest post from J.D. Roth. J.D. writes about smart personal finance at Get Rich Slowly. He has been blogging since 2001. The summer doldrums — most bloggers fear them. It’s not just that traffic tends to be lower, but bloggers are people, too, and need to take ...more

Can Blogging Be a Health Hazard? If so, how can you prevent it happening to you? In this guest post Lea Woodward from Location Independent explores how to be a happier and healthier blogger. Ok, so you might not think that blogging is a health hazard but it’s not so ...more

The following post on meeting the needs of Readers and Visitors is a guest post by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress. Smashing Magazine asks Who Is Your Visitor?, using some new research into the preferences and characteristics of the average visitor to your blog and website. However, since you’d ...more